Word: patent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Judiciary Committee is expected to pass legislation today that would give university researchers and small farmers special exemptions from patent laws regulating genetically-altered animals...
Sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis.), the pending legislation would enable university researchers to freely use patented animals for non-commercial purposes without having to fear lawsuits for patent infringement...
...proposed legislation could significantly affect a patent granted to Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56, who was at the center of a national controversy this spring after Harvard received the exclusive marketing rights for the genetically-altered strain of mice he created to do cancer research. It was the first animal patent...
While the bill would allow Leder's patent to remain valid, he would be unable to draw any profit from its use by other university researchers. Leder was out of town and could not be reached for comment...
...their constant enthusiasm for change, Americans have long been the butt of the rest of the world's jokes for embracing the latest nostrums and potions, from patent medicines to vitamin E. But in recent years, argues , Barsky, Americans have taken their concern for good health to extremes, fretting about every random ache and pain. Over the past 15 years, he reports, polls show people are complaining more about symptoms of illness; those who say they are satisfied with their health dropped from 61% in the 1970s to 55% in the mid-1980s. Americans seem to be on the verge...